Mehdi Akiki

Writing archive

Everything published under Writing, newest first. Each entry is labelled as part of an investigation, an article or reference. Short engineering notes have their own archive.

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    Article · Measurement

    Red-Team the Workflow, Not Only the Prompt

    A strong system prompt cannot secure retrieval, tools, authorization, retries, or side effects. Red-team the complete AI workflow and its recovery paths.
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    Article · Interrupted execution

    When to Advance a Sync Checkpoint After Partial Success

    A checkpoint is a claim about durable effects, not the last page fetched. Compare commit protocols and crash points so recovery repeats work instead of losing it.
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    Article · Through the layers

    Rust's v0 Symbol Mangling: What Changed in Rust 1.97

    Rust 1.97 made v0 symbol mangling the stable default. Compare real nm output, read the encoding, and know what changes for profilers, debuggers, and ABI boundaries.
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    Reference · Interrupted execution

    Fair Scheduling for Multi-Tenant Integration Workers

    A shared FIFO queue lets one large customer delay everyone else. Schedule integration work by tenant, cost, and age while preserving useful spare capacity.